Ranko Matasović


Ranko Matasović is a Croatian linguist, Indo-Europeanist, and Celticist.

Biography

Matasović was born and raised in Zagreb, where he attended primary and secondary school. In the Faculty of philosophy at the University of Zagreb, he graduated in linguistics and philosophy, receiving an M.A. in linguistics in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of Radoslav Katičić with the thesis A Theory of Textual Reconstruction in Indo-European Linguistics. He has received research fellowships at the University of Vienna and the University of Oxford, a post-doctoral Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin during 1997/1998, and also an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship at the University of Bonn in 2002/2003.
He currently holds a chair in the Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, where he teaches courses on comparative Indo-European grammar, Celtic studies, and language typology. His research interests include comparative Indo-European grammar, language typology and syntax, and Latin, Celtic, and Hittite philology. He has contributed to the Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project organized by Leiden University with his . He has also published works on Armenian and Albanian, including the Arbanasi speech of the Albanian diaspora near Zadar.
In 2002, he received an award from the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts for a lasting contribution to philology. In 2006, he became an associate member of the same institution and was promoted into a full member in 2012.
In 2022, he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.

Works

He has published more than 100 papers in Croatian and foreign-language journals and translated various works from Latin, Ancient Greek, Lithuanian, Hittite, Old and modern Irish, Welsh, and English.

Linguistics

A Theory of Textual Reconstruction in Indo-European Linguistics Kratka poredbenopovijesna gramatika latinskoga jezika, Kultura i književnost Hetita Uvod u poredbenu lingvistiku Hrvatski enciklopedijski rječnik, co-edited with Ljiljana Jojić, Vladimir Anić, et al. Gender in Indo-European Jezična raznolikost svijeta, Poredbenopovijesna gramatika hrvatskoga jezika Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic
  • * “” A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika: 1. svezak, 2. svezak , edited, co-authored with Tijmen Pronk, Dubravka Ivšić, Dunja Brozović Rončević, Slavic Nominal Word-Formation: Proto-Indo-European Origins and Historical Development Lingvistička povijest Europe
  • ''An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems''

Translations

Harfa sa sjevera. Iz irske književnosti Koje je vrijeme? Suvremena irska pripovijetka Kamen kraljeva. Srednjovjekovne irske sage

Fiction

  • ''Neprobuđeni. Roman''